Hey,
I was playing around with my new samsung Galaxy s 3 international, when I noticed that home button is different from power button and volume up and down, in terms of firmness.
The Power button and Bvolume up and down are quiet firm and Form factor for the slot, but for Home button, It is not that firm and by pressing the corners of the home button, I can see it is little loose, not very loose though. It works perfectly and didnt sound strange.
But is it a matter of concern, or is it by design or shall I replace the phone for this.
In the worst case, if it stops working, Can I live without Home button?? Please help!!!
I would say it's part of the design unfortunately. Same with mine. I personally do not like using the physical button and therefore have changed the function of my capacity buttons.
I.e. menu button become home button and vice versa which means yes you can survive without the physical home button. This mod is posted on the forum.
Another alternative you can look at is on screen navigation bar. Can be found in the same forum either in development or themes and apps.
Hope that helps!
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I have themarble white version and my home button behaves exactly like yours when I place my fingers on bah ends of it . my friends pebble blue version is much firmer than mine though... . I was just about to bring both of these to Samsung to let them compose to change a new one
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HI...i am brand new to the forum...got my Gtablet the other day....upgraded firmware...so far without installing another Rom....i like the device...I am just checking to see if the 4 buttons on the right side..IE....SEARCH HOME MENU and BACK....should ALWAYS respond...OR if each only will respond depending on what is currently on yr screen....The HOME button ALWAYS seems to bring me to the home screen...the other 3 seem to respond ( or not ) depending on what is screen at the time....they device seems to work fine and the 4 buttons do respond do respond depending on what is on the screen at the time so i am assuming that the buttons physically so work ok.....id appreciate anyone's input....thanks a lot.....
From the user manual (http://www.viewsonic.com/gtablet/GTUG010411/G Tablet User Guide Rev Final 01.04.11.htm#_Toc281858063)
Home and Menu do different things depending upon what is running at the time:
IMPORTANT BUTTONS
On the right side of the LCD Screen there are 4 buttons.
1. SEARCH – Pressing the search button from the Home screen will bring up the Google search web site.
2. HOME – Pressing the Home button takes you back to either the Home screen or the Dashboard depending on which screen you were last in.
3. MENU – Pressing the menu button brings up different options based on the application running at the time.
4. BACK – Pressing the back button will always take you back to the previous window displayed.
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so then depending on what is on the screen....is it likely that the ...say ...BACK or MENU button would not do anything...depending on what is on the screen at the time.....do others find that? Just making sure the unit doesnt have a defect...Thx
cipher54 said:
so then depending on what is on the screen....is it likely that the ...say ...BACK or MENU button would not do anything...depending on what is on the screen at the time.....do others find that? Just making sure the unit doesnt have a defect...Thx
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I have definitely seen this with the menu button.. can you give us an example of an app your are in where it is not working? someone can double-check on their tab...
I'm thinking BACK should always work. Are you having a consistent problem with it not working? Could it be sluggishness of the tablet?
Thanks for the replies gang....i just talked to Viewsonic and they indeed said that depending on what u have on yr screen at the time, certain buttons may not cause the screen to change.....such as if i am on my Classic home page and hit the HOME or MENU button....nothing will happen....if i hit the SEARCH button...it will change screens....and then...after going to the search page if i hit the BACK button.,....it will return to the CLASSIC HOME PAGE.......that all makes sense?
Kinda... need moar coffee first ....
What do you think google is going to do with the menu button on the actual devices? Make it the contextual menu button or make it the multitasking button? the multitasking button would be nice imo
I can see them keeping the function for the "legacy devices"
The contectual buttons will prolly not show up on hardware button devices.
Like the people above me said, its probably gonna be contextual on new phones, and still work with "old" touch keys..
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can be used like camera button
HotlipsH said:
The contectual buttons will prolly not show up on hardware button devices.
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That's what I'm thinking for SGS2... In the end, bottom menu does what real button does only. Nothing extraordinary...
and what about the multitasking button, an onscreen button?
Chad_Petree said:
and what about the multitasking button, an onscreen button?
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I think that the developers or carriers should hide that part of the launcher in this device. Because if you are going to use your sgs2 for at least 2 years, i will be mad seeing every time the software and hardware button at the same time
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I think that the developers or carriers should hide that part of the launcher in this device. Because if you are going to use your sgs2 for at least 2 years, i will be mad seeing every time the software and hardware button at the same time
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Im sure there will be no onscreen buttons for "home" and "back" but what will happend with the "recents apps" button?
Recent apps = hold the home button, just like how it already works.
Actully there is no devices with ice cream sandwitch for smartphone so it's difficult to judge
Z4muZ said:
Actully there is no devices with ice cream sandwitch for smartphone so it's difficult to judge
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Lol you are right
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Does the Galaxy Nexus even have a menu button? No, the menu buttons are onscreen (they differ with each app).
My guess is that the menu button on our GS II will be the multitask button.
It would be awesome if the existing hardware buttons will be like the ICS on-screen nav buttons with one difference: menu button will open multitasking tool. After all, the existing "menu" icon won't look to bad to be interpreted as "multitasking."
That's if and only if the ICS on-screen buttons are always just the three: back, home, and multitasking tool. This way, GS2's hardware buttons won't really make the device outdated. Just something that doesn't rotate landscape. No biggie. Even arguably better in some cases.
Yes but why can't we keep the menu button! I like it, It keeps the screen clean of crap do we really want to turn into the Iphone with software buttons for everything... And On screen is just stupid, Sure then can rotate and the menu button could appear in old apps when it is needed but menu is a part of android... I don't want to click a gear on the app to open the menu when the button did that fine. If Samsung / CM don't implement 4.0 in such a way that menu means menu then I will personally develop a rom that does, Multitasking should be long press of home... That is how we already view recent apps. It just works better.
epichappy said:
That is how we already view recent apps. It just works better.
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And you are sure of that, how?
It isn't even released yet, you can't really judge >.>
Any news here?
Is there a way you can hard-coded, let say the left capacitive button to act as a home button when you long-pressed it? especially on ICS roms that for let say you want to see the recent apps(home button long-pressed) alternatively you'll just long-press the left capacitive button = profit?
My home button is being quirky nowadays(6 months owner) and I don't want to bring it to Service Center just to repair that.. The problem is not groundbreaking(not yet) but this will save me in the future and probably others will so
It's not exactly what you want, but maybe Button Savior will do for you?
I think capacitive buttons are more likely to stop working than the physical buttons. My friend has a motorola Milestone and his back button stopped working in a month. Dont know if it is a bug
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Still need to use home-button I'm in CM9 right now and the home button is really ****ed-up especially when I'm multitasking and I really love how ICS implement the task-switching/killing "Recent app"
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I think capacitive buttons are more likely to stop working than the physical buttons. My friend has a motorola Milestone and his back button stopped working in a month. Dont know if it is a bug
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Well that's a different phone but maybe that can apply to ours. What I mean is that sometimes my home button when I long press and then released it, it double registers the pressing so it's like you pressed again the home button
I am also looking forward for a solution to this. As I also want as much as possible not to use the home button. I quite feel that somehow it is already degrading. Showing press results that are not what I specify. Like for example clicking does 2 clicks thus entering 2 directories in CWM.
Button Savior could have been perfect if the recent apps it shows is the firmware's version. It shows its built-in recent apps instead.
I am noticing a huge design mistake by HTC and perhaps other manufacturers.
With the on screen buttons on the Gnex, the menu button comes and goes depending on the context (app). With the HTC one X for example, there is no onscreen buttons and no physical menu button (unless I am mistaken).
I know google is telling devs to incorporate visible menu buttons in apps but the fact is that MANY apps still do not have on screen menus. Is this not a huge design problem for HTC?
Anyways, HTC attempted to avoid on screen buttons to give more space for the phone itself. Different apps have menu buttons in different locations because of the buttons being capacitive instead of on the screen. Example: the stock ICS browser has the tabs buttons next to the URL, but HTC has the menu button next to the URL in Sense 4.0.
I don't think its a design flaw at all IMO. In fact, I find the buttons being capacitive to be better than wasting screen space. Besides, there are things called updates for apps and I'm sure that the menu flaw will be resolved in the future.
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I am not arguing if on screen is better than on phone buttons (I always though they weren't until I owned a Gnex, don't put it off until you have tried it yourself)
What I am getting at is: use the xda app for example. On the HTC one x. There is no way to bring up the menu
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AFAIK, to avoid this problem, HTC released an API for developers to use so that an on screen menu button will show if the app requires it, much like the GNex menu button. I tried a port of the Sense 4 One V ROM for my DHD, and in that ROM it showed me a black bar at the bottom with a menu button for all the apps that requested for it. Apps which had an on screen menu button didn't cause this bar to show up.
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It won't be a problem for newer apps which have been moving the menu button to the upper right hand corner, but for older apps that haven't been updated and still rely on the legacy menu button where will it appear on the One X? On CM9 on my Touchpad the legacy menu button will show next to the other soft buttons when needed and this is how it is on the Gnex as well I believe. I don't know why Google wants to move the menu button though, it was fine where it was.
Well the onscreen keys should have a legacy menu button appear, if it doesn't on the One X then HTC ****ed up
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Hello guys, i was wondering if there is any mod or hack for the s2 where u can use the soft key back button to eventually get back to the home screen after going past the previous action?
I prefer not to use the hard key to get to the home. My htc desire s allowed the back soft key button to end up on the home screen after all past actions which was very efficient in a way.
Im on stock ICS 4.0.4, Siyaah Kernal 4.1.5.
Thanks
As far as I know, pressing the soft back key enough times, will eventually take you to the home screen.
Sorry man, but i believe there is no such mod for that feature
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If you dont wanna use your h/w home button, use the navigation bar. Its available with most ROMs.
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As far as I know, pressing the soft back key enough times, will eventually take you to the home screen.
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It does take you back to your last visited screen, but if you was not on your main home screen then it does not take you there.